ARRESTED IN BRAZIL
ONE OF HITLER’S SPV LEADERS
HOLDING RANK OF ADMIRAL. ALSO SAILORS BELIEVED TO BE FROM GRAF SPEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RIO DE JAINEIRO, March 26. A dispatch to the newspaper “Oglobo,” from Sao Paulo, reported today the arrest of a German admiral “who is an assistant to Hitler and is a wellknown Nazi leader.” The Sao Paulo police refused to give the prisoner’s name, but said he was chief of a widespread Nazi espionage ring in Southern Brazil, having been in the country for five months. Press dispatches have also reported the seizure of sailors, believed to be Graf Spee refugees, in the interior of Paraiba State.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1942, Page 4
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